‘Did you send that report?’ The Icac bombshell that came late for Damien Tudehope

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The bombshell came in the last five minutes of former finance minister and rightwing powerbroker Damien Tudehope’s examination before the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac). At 3.30pm on Tuesday, Tudehope was shown an email which he sent in February 2023, attaching a leaked draft parliamentary report into branch stacking in the Hills area by the Reformers, the shadowy group at the centre of Icac’s Operation Rosny. It has probably imperilled his parliamentary career. “Would you regard yourself … as being bound by keeping it confidential?” asked counsel assisting, Peggy Dwyer SC. Tudehope visibly tensed. “Did you send that report in draft to Mr Greenwood?” she asked, showing him the email.…

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